This is just fucked.

[Emit]

This is just fucked.

From : Give a Shit about Nature
Here: https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=506682299406650&set=a.140461122695438.35463.134756069932610&type=1&theater

[OnyxCollie]

1. 3,000 tigers left in the world.

That is just fucked.

[DesMoinesDem]

11. No, that is not correct. There are 5,000 to 10,000 tigers in the US alone.

These numbers look to be the number left in the wild.

[OnyxCollie]

13. I should have written "wild." Duh.

My response of "That is just fucked." was to the number left in the wild.

That IS just fucked.

[Emit]

18. Yes, in the wild

according to WWF,

Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low. We have lost 97% of wild tigers in just over a century. Tigers may be one of the most revered animals, but they are also vulnerable to extinction. As few as 3,200 exist in the wild today.

http://worldwildlife.org/species/tiger

[msongs]

2. out of control heterosxual u know whatting...only getting worse for nature nt

[madrchsod]

3. we are next......

it might not be as fast but we will be thinned out....

[delrem]

4. virulent parasites only decline after they've destroyed their habitat.

Ecology is *of course* more important than gearing up a war against (X).
But so is every other truly liberal value, like universal education and healthcare.

[JimDandy]

5. Wow, how awful. n/t

[liberal_at_heart]

6. you're going to make me cry. It's the big cats that made me want to become a biologist.

[KittyWampus]

7. it's the 6th Great Extinction.

[johnnyreb]

8. Heaven help us, for we are surely lost.

[fujiyama]

9. This sucks

I remember when I was a kid, there would be articles about some animals going extinct. Now we may actually be getting there. The number of Tigers left is really shocking. Didn't realize it was so few.

[Emit]

21. "We have lost 97% of wild tigers in just over a century..."

according to WWF:

Wild tiger numbers are at an all-time low. We have lost 97% of wild tigers in just over a century. Tigers may be one of the most revered animals, but they are also vulnerable to extinction. As few as 3,200 exist in the wild today.

http://worldwildlife.org/species/tiger

so sad

[thelordofhell]

10. I heard somewhere that there's more tigers in captivity than in the wild

[Emit]

19. That's just wrong

[tblue]

12. We owe them protection from the human predator.

Thank you for sharing that graphic. I am a HUGE animal lover and I appreciate anyone who takes their part.

[Emit]

25. no problem, tblue

so sad, tho

[TeamPooka]

14. Humans destroy everything they touch in nature.

[sakabatou]

15. With cheetahs these days, genetics play a role too

[truedelphi]

16. The county I live in was just 5 years ago, pretty much forest. Now

It is turning into vineyards. The difference is that vineyards allow habitat for almost nothing. No birds, no skinks, snakes, possums, cougar, bobcat, fox, deer, rabbits, hares, skunks, and the lake is thick with scum from the polluting pesticides the vineyards require.

The newspaper ran a photo of a dust devil sweeping through someone's back pasture yesterday. The article mentioned how unusual this phenomena is in Lake County. But I think it will become the norm.

And the vineyards are considered "environmental" so the public doesn't have the will to stop it.

[B Calm]

17. Lake County, CO?

[truedelphi]

23. Lake County Calif. - Sorry I left that part out.

About two and a half hours NE of San Francisco Bay area.

[dionysus]

20. terrible :(

[Vashta Nerada]

22. The nooz tells me that I should only care about sports, war, and celebrities.

This is sad. And most don't give a damn.

[GliderGuider]

24. Don't fret. Economists tell us that as the tiger supply drops, the price will increase

When the price goes high enough, we'll simply switch to a substitute. Same goes for ocean fish, and passenger pigeons, and bats, and honeybees..

Wait, what?

[NuclearDem]

26. Fuck.